That’s the message thousands of city employees will get in coming weeks after Mayor Bloomberg announced a crackdown on the profligate distribution of official street-parking placards.

Bloomberg declared that the number of permits would shrink by 20 percent, with future distribution handled solely by the NYPD – which will create a special compliance unit – and the Department of Transportation.

There are at present 70,000 city-issued placards; Mayor Mike’s edict will cut that by 14,000.

It’s high time, too.

As The Post first began reporting nearly a year ago, the issuance of official parking placards – given to employees who need cars to conduct official city business, as well as to teachers, police officers and firefighters seeking to park their cars near their places of work – has exploded in recent years.

The Post also revealed that many politically connected city workers – including politicians and staffers who managed to stay on the good side of City Hall – got permits.

With the jump in numbers also came a boom in abuse: Permit holders would park not only in official government parking areas, but just about anywhere – with little likelihood of getting ticketed.

Of course, aside from it being the right thing to do, the mayor had little choice but to crack down, given the ongoing debate on his principal second-term priority – congestion pricing.

The placard-holders have glommed scarce parking spaces, increasing traffic congestion – as city employees drive to work when they’d otherwise use mass transit.

As many current holders will have to do going forward.

This should only be the start of cleaning up this abuse.

Thousands more placards are distributed by state and federal agencies – not counting the 6,000 issued by the NYPD to the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies.

Bloomberg, unfortunately, can’t touch all of those state and federal permit holders as yet.

But the new program is a great first step toward correcting a public-employment perk gone mad.